After searching around YouTube for a bit, I ran into this video, and it sparked my interest. I thought the artist that paints the dogs was amazing. Although I don’t paint like this, & I’m not really shure what my style is, it triggered my interest, and I thought you might be interested as well. I hope you enjoy.
Many artists use Tyvek in their art, and in unexpected ways. This is just one way of working with this amazing paper. Both mixed media artists, and journalists use this product, and I’m guessing if we put our heads together we can find all kinds of ways to use Tyvek in our artwork.
This was interesting to me because it occurred to me that my way of using this product wouldn’t be like this, not that it’s wrong, it’s just not how I’d use it. Admittedly I’ve only tried it once with the heat gun, and it did exactly what it did in this demo. Working with it while it’s all bawled up and curled at the edges takes the steam out of my sails….so to speak. As I’m thinking about it, Tyvek would be perfect for beads also. Since I don’t make anything with hand-made beads, it’s only a suggestion…
When I mentioned there were many kinds of art, I didn’t know of this artist. I could probably sit and watch these pieces of wood for hours. It’s increatable that he even thought of it.
This is a really simple lesson in values. Since I work mostly in abstract, I often disregard the values I maybe should have used. It’s simple and easy to understand, and I probably should use them in my art to give it more depth and substance.
Here it is, I hope it helps in some way.
In playing around on YouTube I found this wonderful piece on Picasso. Since he is one of my favorites I thought you might like this video.
Picasso was an interesting man, complex, mysterious and a gift to everyone. I hope you enjoy this five minutes as much as I did.
At times I think ” The Art Sherpa” is silly, and then I realize silly is a way of having fun, not taking ourselves too seriously, and learn in the process. All in all I like the flowers and stems and the way they turned out. At times I wondered why I was spending so much time listening to something so frivolous! This is a way of relaxing,, and having fun. Sometimes wasting time being silly has huge benefits for those of us that take things too seriously.
I hope you get something out of this, maybe it just triggers a thought or technique you had forgotten. Have fun with it…
Old as Dirt and Proud of it! 
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